Strange German PUW bomb

[MINENAZ16]

Looks like a 12kg PUW but fitted with strange bourelet on top ??

 

[Dreamk]

It may be a 5kg Incendiary PuW , of similar shape and size to the 12kg PuW (and 10kg PuW no2 of 1918) except for its nose. But this needs further research for a definitive answer.

 

[MINENAZ16]

I have already found 5kg puw Inc., the shape is different,

5kg Incendiary


As it's a simulation of hand dropping, the photo was taken on the ground, maybe it's a dummy bomb.

 

[Dreamk]

I put a hand on a digital Hi-resolution copy of the original photographs and enlarged the bombs - there is no reinforcing band ("bourellet") but scratch marks apparently caused by a clamping vise - these bombs seem to have been duds re-used for training after force removing the damaged impacted fuze (and they did not explode while doing that...:tinysmile_hmm_t. The "fuse' seems to be a rough plug for training purposes.
The first Photograph:
"Bombenabwurf_Infanterie-Flieger" - Bavarian Main State Archives, War Archives BS-D 4662



The second photograph from Alamy (they did not specify from which archive they plucked this photograph)

 

[Fusse2004]

Look here! Harry

 

[Dreamk]

This is the fuze mounted on this Ducth PuW clone - but to the best of my understanding this is a post ww1 bomb.



As a matter of fact, even in Germany itself, production and development of PuW bombs went on for a few years after the end of ww1, before being transferred to Sweden.